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We should resist using the term “fossil fuel.” Fossils are rock-like copies of bones or tissues that have had their original cellular structures replaced or filled up with minerals. By contrast, coal, natural gas, and oil are mostly carbon or hydrocarbons, i.e., atoms or molecules resulting from the decomposition of organic material. They are, in essence, naturally stored sunshine. It would be better to call them “organic solar” fuels, or something like that.